Medical Jurisprudence, Volume 3 (of 3)Paris, John Ayrton
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Medical Jurisprudence, Volume 3 (of 3)
Paris, John Ayrton
Medical laws and legislation -- Great Britain
V. And furthermore at such Times heretofore accustomed, there shall be
chosen by the same Company four Masters or Governors of the same
Corporation or Company, of the which four, two of them shall be expert
in Surgery, and the other two in Barbery; which four Masters, and every
of them, shall have full Power and Authority from Time to Time, during
their said Office, to have the Oversight, Search, Punishment and
Correction of all such Defaults and Inconveniences as shall be found
among the said Company using Barbery or Surgery, as well of Freemen as
Foreigners, Aliens or Strangers, within the City of _London_ and the
Circuits aforesaid, after their said Discretions; And if any Person or
Persons using any Barbery or Surgery at any Time hereafter offend in any
of these Articles aforesaid, that then for every Month the said Persons
so offending shall lose, forfeit and pay _v. li._ the one Moiety thereof
to the King our Sovereign Lord, and the other Moiety to any Person that
will or shall sue therefore by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint or
Information in any of the King’s Courts, where no Wager of Law, Essoin
or Protection shall be admitted or allowed in the same.
VI. Provided that the said Barbers and Surgeons, and every of them,
shall bear and pay Lot and Scot, and such other Charges as they and
their Predecessors have been accustomed to pay within the said City of
_London_; this Act nor any thing therein contained to the contrary
hereof in any wise notwithstanding.
VII. Provided alway, and be it enacted by Authority aforesaid, That it
shall be lawful to any of the King’s Subjects, not being Barber or
Surgeon, to retain have and keep in his House as his Servant any Person
being a Barber or Surgeon, which shall and may use and exercise those
Arts and Faculties of Barbery or Surgery, or either of them in his
Master’s House, or elsewhere by his Master’s Licence or Commandment; any
Thing in this Act above written to the contrary notwithstanding.
34. 35. _Hen._ 8. _c._ 8.
A Bill that Persons being no common Surgeons, may minister Medicines,
notwithstanding the Statute.
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